Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

About to read Thinking Fast and Slow by this man. Below is a one of the less ebullient quotes from the cover...

Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be. (The Economist )